10 Most Dangerous Airport Runways in the World

Courchevel Altiport, France: The airport with 500-metre runway facilities is a ski resort surrounded by mountains in the Alps. Pilots often encounter fog, snow and other perilous climate.

Wellington Airport, New Zealand:  This airport allows only small planes to land. It's known for its windy airstreams, leading to unsettled touchdowns.

Gisborne Airport, New Zealand: This landing strip has two modes of conveyance running through it, at any given point of time. A railway track runs just through the middle of the airstrip.

Kansai International Airport, Japan: The airport is situated on its own man-made island. The area is privy to consistent earthquakes, cyclones and storm surge.

Gustaf III Airport, Saint-Barthélemy: This airdrome has limited access just for the rich and famous. Owing to its petite dimension, only private aircraft of 20 people can land.

Princess Juliana International Airport, St Maarten: This airport is known for extremely low altitude landings. People come here just for a know-how of a plane flying straight over their head.

Narsarsuaq Airport, Greenland: The approach of this runway makes it one of the most challenging in the world to land on. Pilots have to fly up a fjord over mountains and through stormy creeks.

Barra International Airport, Scotland: With no scope for a customary pitch runway, this airport has three taxiways sited on a beach. Runways are sometimes underwater, during high tide.

Tenzing-Hillary Airport, Nepal: Mount Everest hikers reach here before starting their journey. The short 1,500-foot runway is sliced from the hillside.

Juancho E Yrausquin Airport, Dutch Caribbean island of Saba: The airport has the tiniest commercial airstrip in the world, only 400 metres long.